Tamekia Block

Web Tools

Click on YouTube logo for clip on how to use social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a web tool that allows a person to share, organize, and manage various web sites for easy location and reference. Social bookmarking is very easy to use; it also makes locating a specific site easy. This web tool is useful because it allows the user to save and share a site. The user will be able to have others join and see what sites that have been beneficial. This web tool has helped me to more organize in finding other sites. This site has helped me share my informational sites with others. Being able to understand social bookmaking gives me an advantage over others because I will be able to take informational websites and share them. I will be able to allow fellow co-workers access to all of the health informational pages such as CDC, MDH, and WebMD; these sites will be able to be accessible by logging onto one site. This will limit time spent sending out multiple e-mails, time being saved will allow time for other work. Social bookmaking can be applied to the healthcare field by bookmaking health informational sites as stated above.

E-Learning

E-learning is a web tool that helps to teach new skills and helps enhance skills that we may already have. E-learning is an online classroom. This web tool is very easy to use. This tool is useful because it can provide on site nursing training. This tool can give refresher courses which will allow all nursing staff to stay on top of the changing world of medicine. This tool has given a better terminology of interactive learning. This tool gives me an inch over others because I will be able to apply the program to different standing orders. I will also be able to create the file and upload it as well as be able to be a super user. This web tool can create more business because it will keep nurses on top of their skills which in the outcome can be great reviews from patients on the nurse’s knowledge. This tool can be applied to nursing and healthcare by being able to teach in a timely matter and being able to have the staff stay on site.

Multimedia

Multimedia is a web tool that allows the use of video, graphics, and sound. This web tool allows people and companies to be able to advertise their items on-line to millions of viewers. Multimedia web tool has some degree of difficulty. This tool would be helpful in many ways. This tool can be utilized by making clips of different types of patient experience. This web tool can also be used as advertisement for health clinics. This web tool will be beneficial due to the fact that I could load a video on line as a way for the company to build its patient population as well as allow viewers to see how happy patients are when coming to your clinic. Multimedia would be a cost effective way to get business out to the public. It would be a good way to show the dictation that clinics have for their communities.

Organization/Reddynote

Click on image of Reddynote to view it larger. Organization is a very good web tool to know. The organization web tool helps to keep people organized with deadlines and events that are occurring at work and even in their personal lives. This web tool is easy to use. There are several different applications that can be utilized for the organization web tool. This tool is helpful because it will keep people on time and organized. It allows people to stay on track with multiple things such as; work meetings, trainings, breaks, and other daily task that need to be done through out the day. Having knowledge of a web organization tool will help keep down cost of paper, keep my work area clean, and it will be easy to share this information with fellow co-workers. This tool will allow me to be on time and on top of my work, this will also allow patients to have a good experience, because I will know what is going on and will be able to keep up with patient care. Organization web tool can be applied by placing events, trainings, and breaks onto an on-line organization application.

Google Docs

Click on the image of Google Docs to view it larger. Google Docs is a web tool that I am able to use. Google Docs allows a person to display spreadsheets and presentations. This application allows someone to invite people to view and make changes to documents that they have posted into the program. Google Docs is very easy to use. This tool would be helpful because information regarding new disease and updates on nursing standing orders can be shared. Nursing staff can be updated and offer any suggestions easily with this web tool. I would be able to set a Google Docs account up as well as manage the account and distrubte information out to staff. My knowlegde of Google Docs will make it more time efficent to pass out information. I will be able to do it efficently and timely. This will keep nursing staff knowlegdeable about new changes within the healthcare field.

Summary

I am currently working as a full-time certified medical assistant. I am also enrolled in school working towards my RN. I am very comfortable with communicating with people. My typing skills are very strong.

Interest

My number one interest is my children. I have a two year old daughter and a one year old son. My children are my joy. Another interest that I just became interested in is pancreas divisum. I would like to found out if this birth defect is present in certain ethnic backgrounds.

Section 2

I am going to add a food tool to my portfolio. I will add this because it gives more of an insight to my personality. This tool could also help with various health issues. Certain health problems need special diets, such as high blood pressure patients should be on a low sodium diet. I think that this tool will be help with my knowledge in the healthcare industry. I think that it will also help in my personal life. It will allow me to create now meals for my family. Overall a food web tool would be beneficial to me for two reasons. Reason one, this web tool will allow me to be able to teach patients good skills with cooking that pertains to health issues that they may have. The second reason, it will allow me to be able to be more creative in cooking meals for my family.

I am also going to add to my portfolio the web tool community. I think that this web tool will allow me to stay in touch with the various events and activities that take place in my community. This web tool will allow a list and blogs of what other family’s do and what places they enjoy visiting. This tool would be beneficial to my career because it will show different business in the community. The community tool may help businesses come together to help the children and low income families. The community web tool would help many people; it will bring people of all ages and race together.

Aug 2008 - Present

I am currently working on obtaining my RN. I am attending school at North Hennepin Community College. I recieved my training for medical assisting at Lakeland Academy which is now Herzing College.

Skills

Skills

Communication

In my job you have to know how to communicate with people. I am constantly talking and listening to patients as well as my co-workers. I am a very good listener which is very important when it comes to having to be able to take care of people when they are ill.

Typing

I can currently type 60-70 words per minute. At Healthpartners we are on an electronic medical record, so everything is done on the computer. I have to type everything and being able to type well helps in my job duties on a daily basis.